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Demanding a case by case, picture by picture justification from the government for why these things can't come out. spencer ackerman reported for the guardian on this today. they've not leaked. so nobody is able to describe them in reporting, but according to what spencer ackerman has turned up, the photos are, quote, said to be even more disturbing than the infamous abu ghraib photographs that sparked a global furor in 2004. so are we done with torture? are we proud of ourselves for being willing to admit what we've done and be open about it? that's not even settled. stay tuned. friday's the ...

Saying the united states must respect international convent n conventio conventions. we heard iran accusing the cia of becoming the international symbol of humanity. the united nations should take action to censure the united states for the kinds of activities. all of these countries have something in common. appalling human rights records. the u.s. allies making comments. david cameron saying torture is wrong. what cameron did not spell out is he has something to lose. britain is accused of being complicit with the united states in the international aspects of the torture program. the former ...

>> there is good news op the senate intelligence report on torture and that is that no one in the government knew anything about torture before the cia got into the torture business. they didn't have a well trained cadre of torturers ready to go, and so as senator rockefeller described it yesterday, they made everything up on the fly. the 123459 report indicates that the torture program was ineffectual and involved much more torture than anyone previously imagined and that it was a cesspool of corruption. a former military psychologist was given $81 million, instantly making him the highest pa...

Of course, all these countries have something in common. appalling record of human rights. you look at u.s. allies. we heard from david cameron saying torture is wrong under any circumstance, but what cameron did not state is britain may have been complicit in the aspects of the torture program. we heard from poland's former president. he said he was aware and he did offer what he called a quiet place for cia operations on polish territory. he said he did not know what was going on. the european court of human rights is already condemned poland for actions allowing the cia to operate a black s...

Evidence from him. as you know, you've had the fbi agent who was in charge of this on your show. that all came out before they brought in the torturer -- >> he provided useful information under fbi techniques that were not coercive. they started torturing him thereafter and got nothing else useful from him. >> they'll say that the torture program -- i should say that the interrogation program got this out. but what they don't distinguish is the legitimate interrogation done by fbi and cia officials and this ham handed, amateurish contractor run torture program which does not. >> senator sheldo...